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Tessa:
Ordered the Marriage certificate! Hopefully it has their parents and I can go back even further!!! Thanks!
Thanks for the WW1 Card! Amazing, so much so quick! I have a DOB!
As soon as I can I will order the SSN applications! Thanks
Carmine:
It's all making sense now... On the 1930 census his year of first marriage does not match up with his wife's (Angelica). Could be another lady!
I hope to get there one day! Maybe the Naturalization papers would give it to me.
I was able to actually get a birth extract from my other grandfather because you found the WW2 draft card. It had his birth place and I wrote, called, wrote the commune! It just came in email the other day. Now I have to try and explain I need the hard copy. Ha.
Death records are not as reliable for information accuracy as other documents. Primarily because the information is provided by the "living" who may not know all the facts (like name of parents, place of birth, etc.)
Thanks for the heads up! I guess I will hold off on that then. I will eventually want it, but am going for all the documents for dual citizenship first. I didn't need the Marriage certificate, but I think it will be nice to have!
It's said Italy was a country of Saints, poets and navigators. There's no more trace of the poets and navigators but, fortunately, there are traces of the Saints. All the Italian towns are voted to a Saint and one of these is San Gennaro, well-known for his miracle. Who was San Gennaro? San Gennaro ...